Demon King's Bather

On the second day after moving to the new house, the Dahuangshan Mountains began to blow a gust of wind above grade [-]. When he was woken up by the howling wind outside in the early morning, Yu Chunlai was a little dazed. The firewood that was too late to pick up was blown and rolled around, and it hit the shed with thunderbolts. Fortunately, they were on the leeward side, otherwise the shed would definitely be blown over.

"It's so windy, I don't know if those three little guys are afraid or not." Yu Chunlai lit the oil lamp, walked along the alleyway in the cave to the next cave, and lighted the oil lamps on the wall of the alleyway along the way.

At this time, he finally understood why Hui insisted on adding this airtight alleyway when he was building the house. He originally thought it was a life-saving place like a secret room, but it turned out to be used to prevent strong winds.

When he went in, Xiaobai had already gotten up. He was the eldest in the family, and he always slept alertly. Since the old civet who adopted him disappeared, he took his two younger siblings with him and never had a good night's sleep.

When Yu Chun came in, he was tucking in the blankets for his younger siblings.The two little civets were curled up in the quilt, sleeping soundly, and smacking their mouths from time to time. Xiao Bai really took good care of this pair of younger siblings who were of completely different races.

"Brother Yu."

"It's okay, I just came to see you, the wind suddenly picked up outside." Yu Chunlai put the oil lamp on the table beside him, picked up Xiaobai and stuffed him under the bed.

Xiaobai usually looks very serious and steady, but in fact, just from his appearance, he is still the same age as a primary school student, and he looks less than forty catties when he is hugged, which is really too thin.

"Thank you, Brother Yu. We are all used to it. The Great Barren Mountain is like this. Every spring, there are always a few days when there will be strong winds. At that time, even the most powerful monsters in the mountains don't want to go out to hunt."

"Is it because the wind is too dangerous?"

"No, because there is too much loess in the Great Barren Mountain, if you go out and get blown by the wind, you will definitely eat a mouthful of mud."

Yu Chunlai: "..."

Well, it seems that the monsters of the Great Barren Mountain have nothing to do with natural disasters like sandstorms.

"I don't know when this strong wind will stop." Yu Chunlai was a little disappointed. He originally wanted to prepare for the opening of the store immediately after moving, but now it seems that it will be delayed again. Moreover, the meat they kept at home was also eaten yesterday. It's over, if you can't go out to hunt these few days, you can only eat stored food.

"I'm sorry, Brother Yu, I didn't expect that you didn't know that there is a windy season here." Xiao Bai seemed to have thought of this, and immediately lowered his head in shame.

"How can this be your fault? When we arrived in a new place, we had to have an adaptation period. There was no way to avoid this. I think we were lucky. We encountered a windy season just after we moved to our new home. At least it doesn’t matter if you don’t go out.”

It turned out that the abandoned cave where I lived temporarily had no water source, so I had to climb the mountain to get to this cave to get water. If I really wanted to spend the windy season there, it would be troublesome.

"Brother Yu, isn't there a windy season where you used to live?"

"No, but our place is not good either. There are typhoons in summer and smog in winter. I have always wanted to move my family to a warmer place in the south, but unfortunately I don't have money." Later, when I finally got rich, Bai Zhi was gone.

"It doesn't matter. I was born and raised in the Great Barren Mountain. Brother Yu, if you don't know anything, just ask me, or Master Hui can do it too."

"Why are you called Lord Hui? I heard that he is not a subordinate of His Highness the Demon King."

"I don't know either. Our adoptive mother told us that we must respect Lord Hui like His Highness, because he is very powerful and knows many monsters in the Great Barren Mountain."

"So that's the case. By the way, Xiaobai, can you tell me about the four seasons of the Great Barren Mountain?" Yu Chunzi has been very curious about Hui's real identity since he went down the mountain to buy it. However, These are all other people's hoaxes. If you don't say anything, he can't take the initiative to ask.Therefore, I can only care about another thing that he is also curious about. Before, I always thought that the Great Barren Mountain was a wild place, but now it seems that the danger here is not only because of such a group of sturdy monsters.

"Actually, I heard from my adoptive mother that our Dahuang Mountain was indeed a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, very beautiful scenery, and a lot of prey a long time ago. The adoptive mother said that they used to catch fish in the river ditch when they were young. One day, all the water in the big rivers and streams in the mountains disappeared, gradually, the trees withered, and after several forest fires, all the animals that could escape escaped, only some monsters that were nostalgic for their homeland remained here."

"Later, Dahuangshan became what it is now. Throughout the year, only spring and summer can see green for a few short months. Moreover, there will be terrible hurricanes in early spring, and it is even more terrible when flash floods occur in summer, so now Many monsters have moved their caves to the mountainside or on the top of the mountain, because they are worried that the cave will be washed away when the mountain flood occurs."

"Autumn is the best season in the whole Great Barren Mountain, because there is a lot of food to eat, but it is also the most dangerous season, because there are many monster hunting monks who sneak in and wait for the opportunity to catch monsters."

"Wait! I seem to have heard His Highness say that Dahuangshan has a contract with monks outside to open the mountain gate once every three years?"

"Yes, but the contract belongs to the contract. There will always be some monks who are desperate to make money and take risks. They will sneak in, but these people dare not touch those big monsters. At most, they will catch some small monsters on the periphery and go back to domesticate them."

"So, we little monsters are very lucky to be protected by His Highness." Xiao Bai thanked.

"What about winter?"

"Winter is the hardest. The winter in Dahuangshan is very long. It lasts from the beginning of October to the end of April of the next year. The whole mountain is covered with heavy snow. Many small monsters would rather risk being hunted to kill them." Running out in autumn to store a large amount of food is to survive and not starve to death when the mountains are covered by heavy snow in winter."

Yu Chunlai was silent for a while, indeed, for those small monsters struggling at the bottom, they couldn't send people down the mountain to buy food for storage like those rich big monsters, and they couldn't even hunt and kill large animals. The reason why there are so few big monsters in the Great Barren Mountain is simply a one-in-a-million competition for survival. Those who can become big monsters must either have a particularly good brain or a particularly strong force value, such as His Royal Highness the Demon King, who is said to be A good fighter in the Great Barren Mountain.

"Little Bai, it's amazing that you have been able to live with your younger siblings until now!" Thinking of this, Yu Chunlai looked at the little white wolf with admiration. His younger and weaker siblings, just this perseverance and sense of responsibility are enough to make an adult like him ashamed.

"Hey, it's not that bad. In the first winter, my sister almost starved to death. I ran out and robbed the nests of a few groundhogs, and then I found some cassava and grass seeds. I have experience in the second year. Every time when I pick up garbage, I come across some edible furs, so I dry them and put them away. When the mountains are covered by heavy snow in winter, I burn the furs on them, and boil the skins in water. You can eat it." Xiaobai smiled shyly, as if he felt how shameful it was to pick up trash for his younger siblings to eat.

But Yu Chunlai looked at him with admiration, he didn't expect Xiaobai to be so big, with such a flexible mind, he could think of the method of cooking animal skins to satisfy his hunger!is not that right?The animal skin is boiled, and it tastes similar to meat skin. Although it is unpalatable, it is better than starving.

"I won't let you go hungry in the future." Yu Chunlai touched Xiaobai's skinny arm.

"Well! When the windy season is over, Big Brother Yu will teach me how to grow vegetables. When the money is earned, we can also go down the mountain to buy a lot of food for storage!"

"Hmph~ That's nice to say, I don't have this king to protect you, let's see if those big monsters don't snatch you all!" In the hunting wind, His Royal Highness the Demon King who ran over to check the situation overnight snorted unhappily, wasting his whole life. Ye was worried about whether this little fish would be afraid, but he didn't expect to hide and chat with that little white wolf!

"Could it be that this king's beast form is not as powerful as a wolf demon?" Ye Zhan scratched the wall depressedly.

"Who's there?" Yu Chunlai turned his head vigilantly to look at the deep alleyway, where the oil lamps were flickering, and a huge shadow could be vaguely seen reflected on the wall. Looking at it in the middle of the night, it was really creepy!

"It's His Royal Highness the Demon King!" Xiaobai hurriedly said, as expected of a wolf demon, his sense of smell is more sensitive than ordinary monsters.

"Is it... Your Highness?" Yu Chunlai cautiously leaned over.

really--

His Royal Highness the Demon King, who was discovered by peeping, wandered out of the alley in disgrace.

"Pfft!" Yu Chunlai couldn't help laughing when he saw that His Royal Highness the Demon King had turned into a lump of mud.

"Laugh again and turn your face!!!" His Royal Highness the Demon King glared at him in embarrassment. It's not good to practice in the original form. A hairy dumpling has no deterrent power at all!

"Okay, okay, I didn't laugh at you, I accidentally touched itchy flesh just now." Yu Chunlai managed to hold back his smile. Forgive him for being so childish, His Highness the Demon King, otherwise he would have to make trouble with him How long.

He could see that Ye Zhan had the kind of tough-mouthed and soft-hearted character, he obviously cared about them, and he came over to check because he was worried about them in the middle of the night, and he insisted on pretending to be passing by.

"Xiaobai, you don't need to go out to collect firewood when it's windy tomorrow. You can sleep a little longer. I'll wake you up after breakfast is ready. Your Highness, come back to that room with me. I'll boil water for you to take a bath?"

"Hmph! Didn't you pile up my room with things?" Thinking of what the big yellow cat said when he came back, Ye Zhan couldn't help but get angry. Wasn't it just a quarrel that he agreed to reserve a room for him?As for confiscating all the rooms that belonged to him?

"You don't come to live here...Okay, okay, the kang over there is quite big, why don't we sleep together?" Yu Chunlai completely gave up reasoning with this proud kitten, how could cats be reasonable? Woolen cloth?All their decisions are their reasons!

"Since you begged me, let's sleep together!" Ye Zhan pursed his slightly red ears, and followed Yu Chunlai back to the cave in the middle.

The cave where Yu Chunlai and the others live has an independent small kitchen, which was originally used to heat the kang and boil water for bathing. It is still cold at night in this season, so a large pot of water is always warmed on the stove at night. , can maintain the temperature of the heated kang, and the overflowing water vapor can also prevent the cave from becoming particularly dry due to the heated kang.

"The water is ready, let's take a bath first, it's not yet dawn, and you can sleep on the kang later." Yu Chunlai came over with a basin of warm water, took a clean towel, and looked at Ye Zhan with a smile.

The one you love personally takes care of the bathing god... His Royal Highness the Demon King felt his heart flutter, and jumped into the water basin with red ears.